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Habakkuk 2:6-20 — Woes on the Unrighteous

Hab.2.6-20

⁶Will not all these lift up a proverb against him, a taunting saying with riddles about him, and say: “Woe to him who piles up what is not his—how long?—and loads himself with debt!” ⁷Will not your creditors suddenly rise, and those who make you tremble awake? Then you will become plunder for them. ⁸Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of human blood and violence done to the land, the city, and all who dwell in it. ⁹Woe to him who gains evil profit for his house, to set his nest on high, to be rescued from the hand of disaster! ¹⁰You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples, and you have sinned against your own life. ¹¹For a stone will cry out from the wall, and a beam from the woodwork will answer it. ¹²Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and founds a town on injustice! ¹³Is it not indeed from Yahweh of Hosts that peoples toil only for fire, and nations weary themselves for emptiness? ¹⁴For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh as the waters cover the sea. ¹⁵Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring out your wrath and even making him drunk, in order to look on their nakedness! ¹⁶You are filled with shame instead of glory. Drink, you yourself, and show your uncircumcision ! The cup of Yahweh's right hand will come around to you, and utter disgrace will be upon your glory. ¹⁷For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you, and the devastation of beasts will terrify you, because of human blood and violence done to the land, the city, and all who dwell in it. ¹⁸What profit is an idol when its maker has carved it, a cast image and a teacher of lies? For the one who forms it trusts in what he has made, making mute idols. ¹⁹Woe to him who says to wood, “Awake!” and to silent stone, “Arise!” Can it teach? Look, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath at all within it. ²⁰But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him.

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4/11/2026

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